Really hope you can help with Wah-Cade

[strontium]

Hi guys I just don't seem to be able to get wahcade working in Groovmame. I have done a default install and sound video all seem to work. The problem is I have no idea how to setup wahcade. I have pointed it to the default location for the few roms that come with the livecd on my HDD but when I press start I get a starting game message and after a few seconds it disappears and does nothing.

I presume this is because the path to the emulator is not correct but for love or money I don't seem to be able to find the mame binary file. Is groovymame on Linux using xmame or sdlmame. At the moment it is pointing to /usr/local/bin/switchres is this correct?

The other question I have is how do I get this to work on a vertical monitor, I can not see anywhere a option for vertical orientation.

Thanks in advance for any help the forum can give me, I'm really hoping that I can get this working. Advice, links, information anything would be great to get my cabinet booting into wahcade and running.

Thanks

Strontium

[strontium]

Ok so I think I've worked a few things out. The first issue I was having was the path to the mame emulator. In Wahcade this should be set to /usr/games/bin/groovymame, please correct me if I am wrong.

I have no idea why it was set to the switchres binary maybe this is something that needs looking at with the livecd install.

I still don't know how to change my Wah-cade layout to vertical so if anyone can help with that it would be appreciated. Any links to setup articles that could help a new user of Groovymame on Linux would be appreciated.

Also what about layouts in Wah-cade any good sites with custom layouts to download.

Thanks

Strontium

[Calamity]

Hi Strontium,

Sorry I can't be of much help with the Linux side, hopefully bitbytebit will see this thread.

All info available should be spread in this thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=107620.0

As for te switchres binary, I believe it's pointing there as a vestige of the time where GroovyMAME didn't exist and Switchres was used as a MAME wrapper instead.

As far as I remember bitbytebit renounced to Wahcade and introduced Advanced Menu instead as it was easier to setup.